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Don't underestimate how narcissistic and also incredibly stupid some of these people are. I'm sure some of them are secretly doing all this to prepare for their dome and cave future here on Earth, but idiots like Musk almost certainly genuinely believe that they're going to live like kings on another planet. They don't care (or don't think they care) about the difficulties because everyone else is going to do the hard work and they'll just get to administer their little dream society. From their perspective, they won't feel any hardships unless the whole thing collapses, and they're all too high on their own supply to believe that a society they've wholly designed, built, and run could ever collapse. imo thinking that this is all a smokescreen falls into the trap of believing that the wealthy are in any way exceptional aside from their wealth. They're dumb, and when you're dumb and have infinite wealth you can find some incredibly novel ways to be suicidally stupid
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Jan 1, 2024 19:16
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Even if we render earth completely uninhabitable to human life destroying the ecosphere and removing something crucial like oxygen entirely, it's still a more plausible place to live than Mars
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Jan 1, 2024 19:26
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I don't think they even believe it or at least it doesn't really matter if they believe. It's just ego hype. They don't give a poo poo about actually living on Mars. They care about being known as the guy who is totally going to live on Mars and sometimes they like to think about all the cool hosed up stuff they would do to their Mars slaves. It's the rich guy equivalent of a little kid having a fit and wishing their real family would come pick them up and love them.
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Jan 1, 2024 19:31
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Yes, but that's missing the point by a mile. These people think they're going to leave long before anything like that happens. It's not about having an ark; it's about throwing a tantrum because being richer than god still isn't enough for the US government to let you run a little libertarian fiefdom on an island somewhere. It doesn't matter that it's not possible.
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Jan 1, 2024 19:31
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Man... how the gently caress do you fully remove o2. That's a deep core fuckup Wouldn't that kill basically all multicellular life
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Jan 1, 2024 19:31
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The only one that I could find via quick search that is publicly talking about sending even private probes to Mars is space x, everything else seems like a scam or focused on making money / near earth. At one point I think there was some contest to design a private moon probe? Really seems like the sort of thing that requires state backing to literally get anywhere tbh. If you don't have the infrastructure of a big enough state I think you might be stranded on this one
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Jan 1, 2024 19:41
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SniperWoreConverse posted:Man... how the gently caress do you fully remove o2. That's a deep core fuckup It's not really especially plausible, even with full forever growth, but the collapse of plant life entirely due to something like the end of cloud formation, and some insane eutrophication of the seas could plausibly drop atmospheric oxygen a percentage or two, which humans probably couldn't cope with biomechanically.
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Jan 1, 2024 19:44
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But even if you did manage that gently caress up, like I said, Mars is worse.
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Jan 1, 2024 19:45
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SniperWoreConverse posted:The only one that I could find via quick search that is publicly talking about sending even private probes to Mars is space x, everything else seems like a scam or focused on making money / near earth. At one point I think there was some contest to design a private moon probe? lotta haters that don't like that im running my moon probe project like a "draw your own robot master for megaman to fight" contest
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Jan 1, 2024 19:52
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SniperWoreConverse posted:The only one that I could find via quick search that is publicly talking about sending even private probes to Mars is space x, everything else seems like a scam or focused on making money / near earth. At one point I think there was some contest to design a private moon probe? Years ago there was the X Prize which for a while I assumed SpaceX was a part of since competitive space exploration is so stupid as a concept. Wouldn't it be better use of resources etc. to pool expertise and collaborate to explore space??
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Jan 1, 2024 19:57
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I mean fie on me for taking him at face value but Elon has jibber-jabbered plenty of times about it being about making humanity a multiplanetary species to avoid existential threats like Giant Meteor or Gamma Ray Burst. He wants to live forever as the man who saved the species. Simplest answer to me seems to be massive ego + being a sci-fi nerd that dropped out of being a real scientist because it was too hard.
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Jan 1, 2024 20:00
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goon project: we're going to privately probe uranus by 2030 goon result: 99% of all life on earth is extinct because everyone forgot to check if cyanuric chromal hydrazine mercurate could be a toxic propellant & the epa literally never spent even 20 seconds paying attention
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Jan 1, 2024 20:03
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SniperWoreConverse posted:goon project: we're going to privately probe uranus by 2030 success! 
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Jan 1, 2024 20:10
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i had 150mm of rain overnight. shits hosed, it’s not stopping 
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Jan 1, 2024 20:57
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It was frosty this morning, the climate has healed
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Jan 1, 2024 21:07
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jetz0r posted:success! Good to see we're right on track!
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Jan 1, 2024 21:26
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I'm stacking firewood and thinking about skiing soon in weirdly normal Jan weather after a month of nothing but. I had the thought "we're going to still see Ski Magazine Corp publishing articles about how we're in a 'temporary multiyear El Nino' while at the same time already witnessing massive climate migration in the US, aren't we?" The  was realizing actually that's already happening and so I poured another beer If I die from inebriated firewood loading efforts, p sure my last thought will be a lol lmao about how well insured I am at present through no real action of my own
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Jan 1, 2024 21:36
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https://www.wsj.com/us-news/minnesota-record-warm-snowless-winter-disrupts-life-2a5f2663quote:Minnesota Nice Wants Minnesota Ice: Locals Crave Bone-Chilling Normal One of the coldest places not having winter any more is good actually. good for money.
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Jan 1, 2024 21:42
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Lmao at "maybe we'll get lucky and have a polar vortex"  It's hard to hold a candle in the warm December rain
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Jan 1, 2024 21:44
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Ending the article with a quote from a golf course owner about how good the money is 
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Jan 1, 2024 22:28
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the forsythia is blooming in january again but since it now has done it multiple years in a row without dying i gotta assume its nbd
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Jan 1, 2024 22:51
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once you've climbed out of the gravity well, why would you want to find another gravity well to hop into?
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Jan 2, 2024 01:21
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https://twitter.com/PlanktonPundit/status/1741846575947645360 Starting off 2024 with micro-organisms tangled in our microplastics. Price we gotta pay for those fabulous polyester tracksuits.
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Jan 2, 2024 01:40
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One can hope this all turns around soon.
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Jan 2, 2024 03:05
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plastics make it possible
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Jan 2, 2024 03:38
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Every time I think of plastics pervading everything these days I always think of how we are all inexorably becoming a Body Worlds exhibit.
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Jan 2, 2024 04:00
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That still messes me up even after a few years of knowing about it, gently caress we're the worst thing that's ever happened to the living world and some people think that it's ok and only human lives and perspectives are meaningful
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Jan 2, 2024 04:47
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Jizzny Princess posted:https://twitter.com/PlanktonPundit/status/1741846575947645360 wishing I could be a ghost watching the alien that discovers earth long after we're all dead, notices a bunch of plastic in every trace of soil and water, and goes "lmao what the gently caress is that" The scale of how widespread plastic contamination became is astonishing
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Jan 2, 2024 05:11
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Jizzny Princess posted:https://twitter.com/PlanktonPundit/status/1741846575947645360 lmao 
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Jan 2, 2024 05:19
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I went for a run in shorts today. Usually it's -30C here
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Jan 2, 2024 05:39
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and here I thought "reality is plastic" was just an acid metaphor
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Jan 2, 2024 05:40
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memory is plastic too 
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Jan 2, 2024 05:44
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Tay Zonday should release a Plastic Rain update.
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Jan 2, 2024 06:19
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Rip Testes posted:Tay Zonday should release a Plastic Rain update. idk why they made fun of him. he was right. quote:Chocolate Rain
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Jan 2, 2024 08:09
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Jizzny Princess posted:https://twitter.com/PlanktonPundit/status/1741846575947645360 don't worry, some plucky enterprising young microbe will figure out a way to digest plastic to gain a caloric advantage and we'll all be saved of course that'll mean all plastic will start rotting
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Jan 2, 2024 08:20
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Hasn't this already started? Or at least some bug or insect eats it like a dumb fucker even if its gut biota can't handle it
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Jan 2, 2024 08:38
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Yea but don't they break it down into nano-plastic which is worse, lol.
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Jan 2, 2024 12:55
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Professor Beetus posted:the only way mars would be worthwhile for human habitation would be if magic sci-fi terraforming were possible. we’re terraforming earth right now quote:of course, if something like that were real, humans would do in the dumbest and most hosed up way and probably speedrun the destruction of that biosphere too yeah…
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Jan 2, 2024 13:50
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Jizzny Princess posted:https://twitter.com/PlanktonPundit/status/1741846575947645360 not saying we shouldn’t reduce our plastic usage (we won’t) but the pervasive level of plastics in every place we look makes me feel it’s already too late here. how do you clean this poo poo up? it’s in the loving plankton. it’s floating in the clouds and in the loving rain. its in our blood, in our children. they’ve been finding it in every placenta they’ve tested https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2023/11/29/rise-of-microplastics-in-placentas/ “University of Hawaii“ posted:The researchers collected and studied 10 placentas in 2006, 2013 and 2021 and found the presence of microplastics grew each year. lol, lmao mags has issued a correction as of 14:08 on Jan 2, 2024 |
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Jan 2, 2024 13:59
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mags posted:we’re terraforming earth right now Terrorforming the planet in his likeness
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